Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

The world is not a rational place.

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you.

I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.